Tag: security

My Android phones have been listening to me for years. I have no doubt about this. When I started talking about something absurd late last year – “can you use hand lotion to condition a leather chair” – and then decided to look it up on my phone, the first suggestion google makes upon entering…

“With this notification we would like to inform you that our in-house Website Performance Monitoring System (WPMS) has signaled that your account constantly uses a large amount of the server’s CPU resources. These excessive requests consume an abnormally high amount of CPU resources and endanger the overall performance of the server. Your account consume more then…

This morning I got an email from a person named Sam Browne with the ominous subject line “Your blog has been hacked“. The email read as follows: I am Sam Bowne, an Instructor in Computer Networking and Information Technology at City College San Francisco. Your blog has been hacked, and is being used to attack other…

UPDATE: Chris Rudzki filed ticket #24078 in Track on April 13th to get the suggested username removed. There is some contention in the comments but overall it looks like this may be implemented. UPDATE #2: Just published an extensive post on the lynda.com blog with security tips and what to do if your site falls…

This just dumped into my inbox. Since so many people use Internet Explorer 6 or 7 and it talks about a very bad security issue I thought it important enough to warrant a repost (for the full details visit http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS08-078.mspx. Basically the bulletin says that if you have automatic updates turned on, your computer will…